The fireworks rising from the sky are dazzling, sometimes like a phoenix breaking through the sky, sometimes like a layer of fiery red twilight spreading everywhere, sometimes like the flashing sunset shining on the last ray of sunshine on the earth, condensed in the air for a long time...

I saw a sea of ​​fire flowing all over the sky, one after another, and I was swaying, as if I wanted to swallow the sky. The smoke was filled with smoke from the sea of ​​fire, as if the thick clouds of May soaked in smoke fell to the ground. On it, it seemed like a trembling and shaking volcano stood.

As soon as the sun sets and the dusk fades, the burning long-lived grasses and cabbage vegetables shine the distributed lands light and dark, so the outlines of the earth appear and disappear with the gathering and dispersion of the thick smoke.

When the fire lights up, the smoke flying across the ground is reflected into a translucent luminous body, and the two Zhangyuans are isolated from each other. When you see this kind of light, you can understand what the "column" of light during the day means.

The scene was wonderful: there was a round red light-red aperture around the fire, as if it was blocked by darkness and stagnant there. The flames became fierce and sometimes a rapid reflection was projected outside the aperture. The sharp tongue of the fire licked the bare willow branches and disappeared in an instant.

Then, a long and sharp black shadow suddenly invaded, reaching the place of fire: darkness is fighting against light. Sometimes, when the flame is weak and the death circle shrinks, a maroon head with a curved white nose bridge suddenly appears in the approaching darkness. It quickly chews the long grass, looks up gently, and then lowers its head and disappears immediately.

In the distant place, there were fires in the darkness, spreading everywhere. The fires were leaping and ripping through the endless night, as if they wanted to break through the shackles of darkness and fly out.

The fire was burning, and the red flames kept rising upwards, sometimes higher, lower, smaller, and larger. A gust of wind blew, and the fire became much smaller, and the red flames were shifting to the side.

Zhang Yuanyi was deeply in the flames at this moment, like a sinner burned by the flames, and was in a very miserable situation. However, he did not change his face at all, and he was still struggling hard in this surging sea of ​​fire.

Zhang Yuan resisted one by one, and angrily shouted at Zhuque, "Zhuque, I have now received the help of three holy beasts. Being regained by me is the general trend. Don't go against the trend!"

After hearing Zhang Yuanyi's words, Zhuque felt that the other party was too naive. She sneered: "All nonsense, how can the world be said? Do you really think that you are the one who has gathered the luck of the world? It's simply a delusion!"

In fact, Zhang Yuanyi has not been so arrogant that he thinks he is the master of the world's fortune. After all, he knows everything he has experienced along the way and what he has not obtained easily.

But it has to be said that after reaching this point, the road ahead has no longer been as vague as before and has become directional. Even when facing a existence like Zhuque, which he once dared not think about, he actually has the confidence to win.

This kind of strength that comes from the heart cannot be given to him, but only all his own experiences make him such a person.

Zhuque actually understood that it was no accident that Zhang Yuanyi was able to achieve such great achievements at such a young age. Some kind of power that even she could not understand was leaning towards the boy in front of her little by little. However, she was not a person who believed in fate, but she had always played a role in fighting for luck.

Just like the four sacred beasts were created by the gods, transcend the gods, enslaved the human race, and were eventually defeated by the human race again. The little things along the way made her feel that there was never any existence in this world that could last forever, even those who were protected by fate and the great way.

Because that day may be the day, before you are ready, the Dadao will turn against you!

In ancient times, powerful people in the world looked up at the starry sky in the area close to the ecliptic, divided the astrological signs near the ecliptic into several areas, called them the twenty-eight constellations, and linked these twenty-eight constellations according to their direction and season and the four symbols.

The ancients successively chose twenty-eight constellations near the ecliptic equator as coordinates. Because they are arranged in the four directions of the sun, moon, and five stars, and are very similar to the places where the sun, moon and five stars live, they are called the twenty-eight constellations.

It is divided into four palaces according to its direction, season and four symbols into the east, south, west and north. Each palace has seven constellations. The seven constellations belonging to each palace are imagined as an animal, thinking that it is "the four spirits of the sky, and they are directed to the four directions."

The name is Qinglong (Cyan Dragon), White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise (the God of the Turtle Shape). In fact, the sky is divided into four parts, formed by the seven main constellations in each part, and named after its shape.

The horns (wooden dragon), Kang (golden dragon), Di (soaked raccoon), house (sun rabbit), heart (moon fox), tail (fire tiger), and Ji (water leopard) in the east are like dragons, so the East Palace is called Qinglong or Canglong.

The seven stars in the West are Kui (wood wolf), Lou (golden dog), stomach (earth pheasant), Mao (sun chicken), Bi (moon black), Via (fire monkey), and Gan (water ape) are shaped like tigers, and the West Palace is called the White Tiger.

The well (wooden bark), ghost (golden sheep), willow (earth deer), stars (sun horse), Zhang (moon deer), wing (fire snake), and Zhen (water worm) in the south are bird-shaped, called Vermilion Bird.

The seven-star Dou (wood), cow (tall bull), female (earth bat), Xu (sun rat), dangerous (moon swallow), room (fire pig), wall (shuishu), and its shape is like a turtle, called Xuanwu. Therefore, the Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Xuanwu became the four gods guarding the Heavenly Palace, warding off evil and adjusting yin and yang.

Because the Four Symbols are originally the guardian gods of the four directions, the "Sanfu Huangtu" says that the Blue Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, Xuanwu, and the four spirits of the sky are directed to the four directions. The Qinglong on the left, the White Tiger on the right, the Vermillion Bird in the front, and Xuanwu behind, four spiritual beasts guard the four palaces of the east, west, south and north to ward off evil, regulate yin and yang, and are the gods of the four directions.

Later, the Four Symbols were gradually personalized as Taoism because they were absorbed by Taoism, and they were given the title. The Qinglong name was "Mengzhang Shenjun", the White Tiger name was "Jianbing Shenjun", the Vermillion Bird name was "Lingguang Shenjun"; and the Xuanwu name was "Zhiming Shenjun".

"The Sutra of the Great Emperor's Demonic Mantra of the Northern Emperor": "The Qinglong on the left is named Meng Zhang. Mao Wen. The White Tiger on the right is named Jianbing. You Wen. The Vermillion Bird on the front is named Lingguang. Wu Wen. The Xuanwu is named Zhiming. Zi Wen."

Taoist priests practiced the Dharma and had four symbols guards. The "Daozang" contains the "The Secret of the Big Dipper Seven Yuan Ziting for the Longevity" and said that there is a green dragon named Meng Zhang on the left, a white tiger named Jianjian on the right, a Zhuque named Lingguang in front, and a Xuanwu named Zhiming in the back, a Jianjie holding a banner, carrying bells and drums on the front, back and forth.

The Qinglong originates from the worship of ancient stars. In "Walking Song", the stars in the sky are divided into seven major star areas: "Three Walls" and "Four Symbols". "Three Walls" are "Purple Walls", symbolizing the imperial palace; "Taiwei Walls" symbolize three provinces and six ministries; "Tianshi Walls" symbolize the prosperous street market.

These three walls are arranged triangularly around the North Star. The "Four Symbols" are distributed outside the "Three Walls": "East Canglong, West White Tiger, South Vermillion Bird, North Xuanwu". In other words, the star signs in the east are like a dragon. Because the world rotates quickly and slowly, the astrology of the sky also changes with the seasons. Every evening at the turn of winter and spring, the Canglong appears.

The dragon is the seven constellations in the east - horn, Kang, Di, room, heart, tail, and Ji. The shape of these seven constellations is very similar to the shape of a dragon. From their meaning, it can be seen that the horn is the horn of a dragon, Kang is the neck, Di is the origin, but the root of the neck, the room is the arm, the flank, the heart is the heart, the tail is the tail, and Ji is the tail.

There is also the part of the dragon heart, which some people call "fire", which is related to sun and rain. Because the Qinglong belongs to wood, it is also the year Taisui of Jupiter. After the rise of Taoism, these four spirits were also named for human names, which is convenient for people to call them. The Qinglong is called "Mengzhang". Among many dynasties, some monarchs have adopted Qinglong as their reign name, and there are records of auspicious signs of "Qinglong born in the suburbs".

On the second day of the second lunar month, the folk call it "February 2nd lunar month, the dragon raises its head", symbolizing the return of spring to the earth and the revival of all things.

The White Tiger is also a god of war and a god of killing. It originates from the worship of ancient stars. The White Tiger has various divine powers such as warding off evil, warding disasters, praying for wealth, punishing evil and promoting good, making money and getting rich, and getting married. It is one of the four spirits, and of course it is also transformed from the stars. It is composed of the seven constellations in the West among the twenty-eight constellations: Kui, Lou, Wei, Mao, Bi, Ju, and Shen. Therefore, it is the representative of the West, and its whiteness is because the West belongs to metal in the five elements and its color is white. Therefore, white is said from the five elements.

In addition to the four spirits in Taoism, including the Blue Dragon and White Tiger, even when Feng Shui masters explore the cemetery, the terrain protruding on the left and right sides of the terrain can be regarded as tombs. They have unique titles, called the Blue Dragon on the left and White Tiger on the right, which means guarding. There are also the same decorations in the court, with the Blue Dragon and White Tiger on the left and right pillars to suppress evil spirits.

After the rise of Taoism, dragon and tiger were borrowed as Taoist elixir terms, which refers to the consent words "lead, mercury, Kan, Li, water, fire, Yin and Yang". Another saying is that nature belongs to wood, wood represents the east, and is Zhen in the hexagram, so Bi is the blue dragon; love belongs to metal, metal represents the west, and metal is Dui in the hexagram, gold is white, so it is called white tiger. Gold can overcome wood, so emotions often damage nature, and use the true essence of 28 to make them intersect and merge into one, then gold and wood are endless, and dragon and tiger are subdued to form elixirs. In the human body, the liver is the dragon and the kidney is the tiger, and the external elixir still takes the meaning of yin and yang, using dragon and lead and tiger is mercury.

In traditional culture, it is one of the four symbols of the seven Western constellations in Taoism. According to the theory of the Five Elements, it is a spiritual beast representing the West, a white tiger, and the season represents autumn. The seven Western constellations in the twenty-eight Western constellations (Kui, Lou, Wei, Mao, Bi, Vi, and Shen) are the tiger, and are located in the west, with metal and white color, and are collectively called the white tiger.

Vermilion Bird is one of the four symbols and one of the four great beasts in traditional culture, originating from the worship of ancient stars. It is a divine beast representing the south, its color is red, and its season is summer.

The four major beasts are: Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu, Qinglong, and White Tiger. Vermilion Bird is one of the four spirits, and like the other three, it comes from the stars and is the general name of the seven southern constellations: Jing, Gui, Liu, Xing, Zhang, Yi, and Zhen.

Zhu is red, like fire, and is fire in the south, so it is called Zhuque.

The name of the star constellation is the general name of the seven constellations in the south among the twenty-eight constellations. "Book of Yaodian" "Star Bird in the Sun"; the Qing Dynasty's Sun Xingyanshu: "The classics say that the star bird is the bird called the Vermillion Bird, the southern constellation... Zheng Kangcheng means that the seven constellations in the south are always the bird star." 2. Refers to the military flag with the shape of the Vermillion Bird. "Wu Zi·Machine Military": "There must be the green dragon on the left, the white tiger on the right, the Vermillion Bird on the front, and the Xuanwu behind, and the swaying above and working at the bottom."

The auspicious animal in ancient legends is one of the "four spirits". "Sanfu Huangtu·Weiyang Palace": "The Canglong, the White Tiger, the Vermillion Bird, the Yuanwu, and the four spirits of the sky, are used to set up the four directions, and the king uses the palaces and palaces to learn from it."

The name of the Southern God. "Wenxuan·Wang Yanlu Lingguang Palace Fu" "The Red Bird Spreads the Wings"; Li Zhouhan, Tang Dynasty Note: "The Red Bird, the Vermillion Bird, is the Southern God."

The seven constellations of the Vermillion Bird, the well constellation, has stars, the Grand Historian’s Records: “The Nangong Zhu Bird weighs the trade and weight, and the East Well is a water event.” Boya: “The East Well is called the Que’s Head.” Jin Shu Astronomy: “The Eight Stars of the East Well in the South are the South Gate of the Sky.”

In the ghost, there are four stars, and the stars are all dark. There is a cluster of stars in it. It can be seen at night. It is called the accumulation of corpse energy. The Grand Historian's Book: "Yu Gui Gui Temple" Boya: "Yu Gui Gui is called the Heavenly Temple." The Jin Dynasty's Astronomy: "Yu Gui Gui is the five stars, the heavenly eyes." Watch the elephant and play divination: "The four stars of the ghost are called Yu Gui, which are the heads and eyes of the Vermillion Bird. The center of the ghost is white like pink trousers, which is called the accumulation of corpse. One is called the heavenly corpse, like clouds but not clouds, like stars but not stars, just seeing the air."

Liusu, there are stars, all of which belong to the long snake. The rituals are: "The moon in autumn is in the morning, and the willows are among the willows." Erya explained the sky: "The sacred is called willows, and the willow quail fire." The Han Dynasty Astronomy Records: "The willows are the black pecks, and they are the main plants and trees." The Jin Dynasty Astronomy Records: "The Liu Ba Xingtian is the kitchen slaughter."

There are seven stars in the stars, six are long snakes, and one is this one, shining alone, and the lightness is second-class. The ritual order: "The moon in spring is in the dark, the seven stars are among the seven stars." Also: "The moon in winter is in the morning, the seven stars are among the seven stars." The official account of the Grand Historian: "The seven stars are the main things." Watch the elephant and play divination: "The bird flag in the Zhou rites is seven tassels, which are like quail fire." It is also called the seven stars.

Zhang Su, there are stars and six, all belong to the long snake. Records of the Grand Historian: "Zhang Su is the chef and the host is the guest." The Astronomy of Han Shu: "Zhang Wei is the chef and the host is the guest" Guangya: "Zhang is called the tail of the quail." Watch the elephant and play divination: "Zhang Liu is the Tianfu, one is called the Imperial Palace and the other is Tianchang, which is actually the lake of the vermilion bird, which is Mars."

There are twenty-two stars in the Yi Su, the first to the eleventh to the eleventh to the zodiac sign, and the twelve to the fourteenth to the zodiac sign. The two stars and six stars are unknown. The number of stars among the twenty-eight stars is the most common. The ritual order is: "The moon in the summer, the darkness, the wings are in the wings." The official book of the Grand Historian: "The wings are the feathers and the wings are the host of distant guests." The Jin Dynasty Astronomy: "The twenty-two stars in the wings are the music palace in the sky, and the main haiku is the host of music."

Zhensu has four stars, namely crows, which are beautiful two stars, one yellow and one purple. The ritual order: "In the mid-winter month, the dan, the zhen in the middle." The official book of the Grand Historian: "Zhen is the car, and the wind is the master."

Xuanwu originated from the worship of ancient stars. It represents Zhuanxu and the divine beasts in the north.

When the theory of the Five Elements began to emerge, its symbolic meanings include Ren and Gui and winter.

Turtles and snakes are in the Seven Star Continent, Taoist legends, and have always been considered spiritual beasts and symbolize longevity. Since ancient times, the nobles have been paired with jade tortoise pendants.

Xuanwu is a kind of spiritual object composed of a turtle and a snake. The original meaning of Xuanwu is that Xuanming, Wu and Ming ancient sounds are the same.

Like the other three spirits, Xuanwu has also been transformed from the twenty-eight constellations in the world: Dou, cow, female, empty, dangerous, room, and wall.

"Chu Ci Yuanyou": "Summon Xuanwu and flee to his subordinates." Wang Yi's note: "Call the Taiyin God is the envoy of Chengwei." Hong Xingzu's note: "The speaker said: "Xuanwu refers to the turtle and snake. He is located in the north, so it is called Xuan, and he has scales and armor. He is called Wu." Cai Yong said: "The Xuanwu in the north is the leader of the insect."

"Wenxuan" note: "The turtle and the snake are in Xuanwu." Also, "The Book of Rites": "The vermilion bird before the journey and then the blackwu."

Kong Yingda Shu: "Xuanwu is a turtle."

"Biography of Wang Liang in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty": "The name of Xuanwu Water God." Li Xian's note: "Xuanwu, the god of the north, is a combination of turtles and snakes."

According to Xuanwu, the Emperor Zhenwu worshipped by Taoists, during the Song Dynasty, he avoided taboos and changed Xuan to Zhen. Later Taoists worshipped Zhenwu, and placed two turtles and snakes beside him. Duan Chengshi of the Tang Dynasty said: "The Taoist Zhu often traveled to Mount Lu in the eighth year of Taihe and rested in the stream stones. Suddenly, he saw a pancake like a pile of cotton and turned into a giant turtle. When he visited the mountain, he said that it was Xuanwu." This is the legendary change of gods and monsters.

People used to imagine several stars in the north as images of turtles and snakes, and called Emperor Xuanwu. In folk beliefs, Emperor Xuanwu has several divine characteristics:

The note of the god of the north "Chu Ci Yuanyou" says: "Xuanwu, the name of the northern god". "Records of the Grand Historian" says: "The Northern Palace Xuanwu, Xu, Wei, Wei". Volume 6 of "Repair of Wei" "He Tu": "The Black Emperor in the north, the name of Ye Guangji, the essence is Xuanwu."

Water God Xuanwu Water God, according to the theory of Yin and Yang and Five Elements, the north belongs to water, so the northern god is the water god. Wuyi's "Jiuhuazhang Qu" says: "The Heavenly Turtle Water God". "Biography of Wang Liang of the Later Han Dynasty": "Xuanwu, the name of the water god". "Re-repairing Wei Shu" Volume 6 "River Tu": "The seven gods in the north actually start from Dou, conquering the north, and controlling wind and rain." Rain water is required for the growth of all things, and water can extinguish fire, so Xuanwu's water god attribute is highly valued and believed by the people.

The god of reproduction has always compared the great divine power with the phenomenon of yin and yang sympathy to evolve all things, and worships the divine power of reproduction. The snake itself is a symbol of reproduction and reproduction. Xuanwu appears in the shape of a fusion of turtle and snake, and was regarded by the ancients as a symbol of male and female combinatorial combinatorial and reproduction.

"Zhou Yisan Tongqi" also uses the example of turtles and snakes clinging musing to illustrate that yin and yang must be coordinated: "Guan Guan Suijiu is on the river island, a beautiful lady, a gentleman is a good match, a male does not live alone, a female does not live alone, a black wool, a turtle and snake, clinging to each other to show that male and female is, after all, they are close friends."

The god of Siming, turtles were a symbol of longevity and immortality in ancient times, and could guide their energy to death. The "Biography of Turtle Ce" records: "The elderly in the south used turtles to support their feet on their beds, and they were over 20 years old. When the elderly died, they moved the bed, and the turtles were still alive. The turtles could guide their energy."

"Baopuzi" records: "When Chengyang was young, he was hunting and fell into an empty tomb. He was hungry. He saw a big turtle in the tomb first, and he turned around. He was impermanent, and he opened his mouth and swallowed, or looked up. Jian also heard that the turtle could guide him, so he tried to follow the turtle and then he stopped hungry." Furthermore, the first seven constellations of Xuanwu in the Beigong Palace, also known as Nandou.

The Star Classic says: "The six stars of the Southern Dipper are responsible for the lifespan of the emperor and are also the position of the prime minister's title and honor." The "Su Shen Ji" of Jin Ganbao quoted Guan Lu's words: "The Southern Dipper is imputed to life, and the Northern Dipper is imputed to death." Worshiping the Southern Dipper can increase life. This is very attractive to emperors, bureaucrats and ordinary people for immortality.

"Shu Yao Dian": "The star in the night is empty, and it is Yin Zhongqiu." The legend says: "Xu, the star in Xuanwu." According to Xuanwu, it is the general term for the seven constellations in the north.

In its third direction, the "Four God Pattern Tile" was extremely popular in the Han Dynasty. It included four animals, namely the Qinglong, the White Tiger, the Vermillion Bird, and the Black Tortoise.

The four sacred beasts were clearly so unique, but they were eventually humiliated by the human race and became such an unbearable existence in the documents. Others didn't care, but they were as rebellious as her, and would never agree with it.

At this moment, Zhang Yuanyi was already staring at Zhuque's offensive and came to her little by little. Looking at the other party's snow-white eyes, the burning feathered clothes, and the embarrassed figure, Zhuque finally couldn't help it. She roared angrily: "Human evil beast, go to death for me!"

Only a series of sound booms were heard, from the surrounding area of ​​Zhuque, within a radius of dozens of feet, there were torn space everywhere. From the cracks in the space, clusters of surging flames, like fire dragons, teasing their huge tongues and swallowing towards Zhang Yuanyi!

Under the huge power, if it were an ordinary Qianyuan realm monk, he would have already turned into a ball of ashes. However, in the sea of ​​fire, whirlpools danced in the sea of ​​fire. From a distance, it was clearly Zhang Yuanyi fighting with the dragons in it.

However, just a moment passed, the vortex became less and less, and the movement became smaller and smaller, until the last little bit of submersion, like a covered drowning person.

Zhuque narrowed his eyes slightly and finally smiled, "It's just that."

Just as she finished speaking, a golden light was wrapped in countless high-temperature flames from the surging sea of ​​fire, like a meteorite falling from the sky, towards the Suzaku!

Zhang Yuan's eyes were bright golden light, and one eye was full of fire, and he slashed at him with a sword!

Faced with Zhang Yuan's sudden attack, Zhuque could only flap his wings and wave it. A red light flashed over her phoenix crown, and a glass-like barrier was created in front of her!

Zhang Yuan's body was slightly tilted, his face remained unchanged, and he cut through the glass barrier with a sword!

"Ping Ping Pong!"

A series of sounds of a series of broken glass barriers, a drop of blood slowly dripped on the ground, and evaporated in an instant.

In Zhang Yuanyi's hand, the Qingmeng Sword had already pierced into Zhuque's chest. He said calmly: "You still lose to me now."

A trace of incredibility flashed in Zhuque's eyes. She was silent for a long time, and finally lowered her noble head and no sound.

With the silence of the Vermilion Bird, the space around him suddenly changed drastically, and the world was clear and bright.
Chapter completed!